Thoughts, Findings, and Rants…

Today’s Readings

The code from Ted Littledale‘s iAd Carousel Navigation makes it seem… not that hard… Of course, his carousel is intended for an iDevice, but this makes me wonder how hard it would be do something similar for a standard webpage… Hmmm…

And speaking of iDevices, let’s see Jobsy come out with a developer like Project Ares, the new web-based development environment for the Palm Pre!

If you, or someone you know, is interested in a fairly-beginner-level JavaScript course, Kevin Yank, of SitePoint, is hosting JavaScript Live. The course outline looks fairly basic, but judging by the fact that Kevin Yank and Brothercake are involved, I’d say surely there will be a few golden nuggets here and there… You might find a few answers to your questions (like, “Will you be using jQuery?”) in the comments of this introductory announcement. Oh! Did I mention the registration fee is only $9.95???

At least in the back of all of our minds I think we all know that out beloved government is snooping like crazy, right? We tend to (want to) think that the cold war days are over, so all that cloak-and-dagger-spying-crap must be done with, right? Of course not… Ever wondered what kind of information the government actually asks for, and gets? Well, our friends at Google are now letting us know, with their Government Requests Tool.